The leak was discovered in early May by security experts on the media site Cybernews, and it is reported to involve hundreds of millions of records containing everything from personal data, tax returns, and information about debts and business relationships between 2019-2024.
It is unknown how long the information has been exposed and security experts Ekot has spoken to warn that the information may have been used by criminals.
If you can sort information based on income or how often someone has changed address, then you can find the people who are interesting to try to commit fraud, extortion or similar against, says IT security expert Karl Emil Nikka to Ekot.
Ekot first tracked the leak to the Danish credit company Risika, which told Ekot that the leak occurred with one of their Swedish customers, whom they do not want to disclose for legal reasons.
The incident has, according to Ekot, not been reported to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, IMY.
